Title & Author:

Sacred realm : the emergence of the synagogue in the ancient world / edited by Steven Fine ; organized by Yeshiva University Museum.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press : Yeshiva University Museum, 1996.

Description:

xxix, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Series:

Yeshiva University Museum

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Yeshiva University Museum.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index.
Foreword: The Ancient Synagogue and the History of Judaism / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- 1. Ancient Synagogues: An Archaeological Introduction / Eric M. Meyers -- 2. From Meeting House to Sacred Realm: Holiness and the Ancient Synagogue / Steven Fine -- 3. Diaspora Synagogues: New Light from Inscriptions and Papyri / Louis H. Feldman -- 4. Diaspora Synagogues: Synagogue Archaeology in the Greco-Roman World / Leonard Victor Rutgers -- 5. Synagogues in the Land of Israel: The Art and Architecture of the Late Antique Synagogues / Rachel Hachlili -- 6. Synagogues in the Land of Israel: The Literature of the Ancient Synagogue and Synagogue Archaeology / Avigdor Shinan.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World offers a comprehensive overview of the historical, archaeological, and literary development of the synagogue from the third century B.C.E. to ca. 700 C.E. by an international team of scholars. In describing more than two hundred ancient synagogues in the Greco-Roman world and their place in the history of Judaism and Western civilization, this book shows how the synagogue came to be the most important institution in Jewish life. Beautiful illustrations and maps transport the reader into the remains of synagogues as far afield as North Africa, Italy, Asia Minor, Israel, and Syria. Sacred Realm complements an exhibition organized by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The exhibition brings together archaeological artifacts and manuscripts from museums in North America, Europe, and Israel, most of which have never before been displayed in the Unites States. Lavishly illustrated with both color and black-and-white photographs of artifacts, sites, and models of ancient synagogues, this book is not only a detailed record of this historic exhibition, but a guide to the development of Judaism's most sacred institution.

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ISBN:

0195102258 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780195102253 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
019510224X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780195102246 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Synagogues Palestine Exhibitions.
Synagogue architecture Palestine Exhibitions.
Architecture synagogale Palestine Expositions.
Antiquities.
Synagogue architecture.
Synagogues.
Antike
Synagoge
Synagogen.
Synagogues History Exhibitions.
Synagogues Israel Exhibitions.
Architecture synagogale Moyen-Orient Catalogues d'exposition.
Architecture synagogale Palestine Catalogues d'exposition.
Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-700.
Palestine Antiquities Exhibitions.
Palestine Antiquités Expositions.
Middle East Palestine.
Eretz Israel Antiquities Exhibitions.
Moyen-Orient Antiquités Catalogues d'exposition.
Palestine Antiquités Catalogues d'exposition.
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Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Fine, Steven.
Yeshiva University. Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134515
Call No.: ID DS111.7.S27; ID:97-B481
Status: Available